{"id":1143,"date":"2011-11-29T22:07:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T03:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:43:18","slug":"i-cant-quit-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Quit You&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re learning how to turn down requests these days in JBPP, and I have to say that it&#8217;s a total minefield. If you turn down someone in the wrong way, you will give them the impression that their business isn&#8217;t as important as whatever it is that is keeping you from playing golf with them.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s difficult in the US, too. It&#8217;s hard to say no these days pretty much wherever you go.<\/p>\n<p>My main problem with respect to Japan, where golf is popular in corporate circles, is that I am terrible at golf, and playing golf with me would likely make a client hate me and possibly hate my company. So I would rather have that person play with someone who will let them have a more enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how to politely say that in Japanese, though. I&#8217;m working on it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still learning how to say &#8220;No&#8221; politely in Japanese, and I&#8217;m finding it&#8217;s a lot harder that I thought. And I thought it was hard to begin with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[630,894,828,12,533,106],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-japanese-language-study","tag-golf","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-japanese","tag-jbpp","tag-yamasa","category-3-id","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}